<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV align=center><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>BAMFORD-LAHEY CHILDREN'S
FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN GRANT FUNDING POLICY</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation
has established a new policy regarding funding of its research and
development grants. Until recently, each grant was evaluated on its
own merit and decisions were made without regard to other applications.
Because of an increase in applications and limited finances, this policy will
change to a competitive review. This new policy applies to all grant
applications under review and all future applications. Deadline for
consideration for funding in 2005 is October 15, 2004; we expect to
make announcement of results in February 2005. The number
of projects funded will depend on the quality of the applications and the
financial resources of the Foundation; it is possible that none of the
applications will be funded or that more than one will be funded. See our
website for other procedures <A
href="http://www.bamford-lahey.org/guidelines.html">http://www.bamford-lahey.org/guidelines.html</A>.
As usual, applications are only on an invited bases following evaluation of an
initial letter-of-inquiry. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Foundation is particularly interested in
funding research that will help establish the efficacy and effectiveness
of language intervention practices with children as noted under Objectives
on our website. We encourage letters-of-inquiry regarding such studies but
will consider any inquiries related to our
objectives.</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Margaret Lahey, Ed.D.<BR>President, Bamford-Lahey
Children's Foundation<BR><A
href="http://www.Bamford-Lahey.org">www.Bamford-Lahey.org</A><BR><A
href="mailto:mlahey@bamford-lahey.org">mlahey@bamford-lahey.org</A><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>